• charliespider@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      Claiming that someone’s homophobia is because they are secretly gay is ultimately blaming the gays for said homophobia.

      It’s also entirely possible that someone is just a hateful piece of shit.

      • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        I get what you’re saying.
        But usually it’s really they are a hateful piece of shit because they are secretly gay. The loudest ones tend to be the most secretly what they are yelling about.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Um, I’d argue that it’s blaming the people that drive others to subvert their own tendencies, e.g. the gay-is-icky crowd of which the Christian national movement is a subset.

        If gay was truly okay, and we didn’t have guys who felt pressured to be alpha masc, then no-one would blink twice when a toddler liked flowers and rainbows.